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How can I completely hide or remove the Dock in Mac OS X Yosemite?

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Answer (1 of 7): You can't completely remove the Dock without losing lots of core OS X functionality. For instance the Dock actually handles the desktop background. So if you remove the Dock, you no longer get a desktop background. You also lose the ability to drag files to the trash.

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As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 ("Dustwun")!Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai's sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictu...

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Create digital lessons using the best online material for free. Guide quick students through more difficult pathways. Track your students' progress using real-time statistics.

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SymbalooEDU - a great icon bookmarking website

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SymbalooEDU - a great icon bookmarking website

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How to completely hide or remove the Dock in Mac OS X Yosemite - Quora

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How can I completely hide or remove the Dock in Mac OS X Yosemite?

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Answer (1 of 7): You can't completely remove the Dock without losing lots of core OS X functionality. For instance the Dock actually handles the desktop background. So if you remove the Dock, you no longer get a desktop background. You also lose the ability to drag files to the trash.

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How to automatically hide the Menu Bar in Mac OS X

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One of the more under the radar features of macOS is the ability to auto-hide the menu bar. Just like the Dock, which has long had the ability to auto-hide, the menu bar can be hidden until needed.

Auto-hiding the menu bar brings the obvious benefit of having more on screen real estate and less distraction. With both the Dock and menu bar set to auto-hide, you can experience a shockingly clean interface as you go about your work.

How to enable auto-hide for the menu bar

Step 1: Open System Preferences.

Step 3: Check the Automatically hide and show the menu bar option

The menu bar will immediately hide from view.

To view the menu bar, simply drag your cursor up to the top of the screen and hold it there for a second. Just like the Dock when hidden, the menu bar should reveal itself automatically when the cursor is near.

When I first learned about menu bar hiding, I didn't think it was that big a deal. But after enabling menu bar hiding along with Dock hiding, I have to say that I'm a big believer.

It makes me wonder why Apple took so long to implement such a great feature. The clean feeling you get from this has to be experienced to appreciate it. It's not going to change your life or anything, but it does provide you with a sudden sense of freedom, especially on a large display.

What do you think about menu bar hiding? Are you a fan?

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One of the more under the radar features of macOS is the ability to auto-hide the menu bar. Just like the Dock, which has long had the ability to auto-hide, the menu bar can be hidden until needed. Auto-hiding the menu bar brings the obvious benefit of having more on screen real estate and less distraction.

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How to upload a picture with words to Google Docs and have it put the words in a doc for you!

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Google Drive makes it painless to go paperless. Its collaborative documents, spreadsheets, and presentations already help curtail paper usage, but its OCR feature helps curb the paper mess even more.

OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is the most important tech to help you go paperless. Scanned documents on their own are only glorified pictures of your documents, but let your computer recognize the text and they instantly become a ton more useful. We've already looked at how to OCR documents in Adobe Acrobat:

We've looked at turning PDF files into documents you can edit in Word as well:

Now if you don't have a copy of Acrobat or Word, there's an even better option: Google Drive. It includes a little-known free OCR tool that is a powerful, easy to use image to text converter.

In this tutorial, we'll look at what is Google Drive's OCR process and simple steps to begin working with it. I'll show you how to use Google Drive to quickly convert your scanned images and PDF documents into editable text files online.

1. Scanning Your Documents for OCR

The first step and most important step in OCR is finding the PDFs or pictures that you want to convert to text files. Google Drive currently supports OCR for .jpg, .gif, .png, and PDF files up to 2MB in size.
If you want to convert multiple pages to text, PDF format is the most efficient as all pages can be uploaded in one batch.

Prepare Your Files Properly for OCR

There are a few rules of thumb to produce optimal results from OCR in Google Drive. Make sure your file is high resolution with clear contrasts and even lighting-these are by far the most important factors in ensuring a successful conversion.

For best results, use a standard font like Helvetica. Stay away from overly stylized fonts or text effects.

Additionally, make sure that the text being scanned is horizontal and reads from left to right. Standard typefaces, such as Helvetica and Times New Roman, will produce better results than more obscure typefaces. If you have a document that's rather unreadable, you can still attempt to OCR it, but the results likely won't be that nice.

While Google Drive supports OCR for many different languages, OCR on languages that use non-Latin character sets may be buggy and may not produce desirable results.

Gather Your Image Scans and PDF Files

If you own a scanner, you can use programs like Doxie or other scanner software to digitize them for upload into Google Drive.

If you don't have a scanner, your phone can be used in place of one. There are a number of apps in the App Store that "scan" physical documents into clean PDFs using a phone's camera.

If your files are on your computer, make sure that their file format is one of those supported by Google Drive. If the document or photo you want to use is physical, then scan them onto the computer. There are a couple good options to use:

For example, Evernote's Scannable is just one of several apps that allows you to scan documents with your smart phone. To learn more about Evernote, review the tutorial:

A PDF file as viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader.

After taking your scan and transforming it into a clean PDF, your result should look something like this to start with:

With your PDF or scanned image ready in the proper format, now let's look at how to get your files uploaded for OCR with Google Drive.

2. Upload Your Files to Google Drive for OCR

It's a snap to convert your PDF and image files to text in Google Drive using it's OCR feature. Let's look at how to quickly do that.

Use the Upload files option to upload a file to Google Drive.

To add your documents to Google Drive to get them OCRed, first go in to your Google Drive account. On the My Drive page, click the My Drive button next to the New button on the left side of the page. Select Upload Files.

Upload the files to Google Drive.

Use the Upload files option to upload a file to Google Drive. Find the file that you want to convert from PDF or image to text. Click the Open button.

Open your file with Google Docs.

The document now appears in your Google Drive. Right-click on the document to bring up a drop-down menu.

The file is downloading and being converted from PDF or picture to text.

Click the Open with option and click Google Docs. A sheet icon appears while the file is downloading. Google is now in the process of converting your PDF or image file to text with OCR.

The converted file after OCR is applied in Google Drive comes out unformatted.

The file will open in Google Docs with the PDF converted to text, but with little formatting applied. You can now edit and format the new text file as you like.

Luckily, changes can easily be made due to the fact that the text is editable. You can use the same steps to OCR an image file using Google Drive as well.

Converting Images to Text in Google Drive

You can quickly take your image scans into Google Drive to convert it to text using the same process as above.

A .jpg image file before using Google Drive for OCR.

Here is a .jpg image of the text we've been working with before importing it into Google Drive:

Here is the same picture file after we open it with Google Docs in Google Drive:

.jpg image after OCR covernts it to text in Google Drive.

Notice that the original image appears above the line. The editable text is beneath the line.

Google Drive's OCR feature is powerful and easy to work with, you can quickly take an image scan or PDF and convert it into a text document. Once you've added your converted text file to Google Drive, now you have access to all the powerful document management features available.

3. Managing OCR Documents in Google Drive

One huge advantage to using OCR in Google Drive is that you can easily share the new document with whomever you need to. To do so, go to File > Share, and you can add collaborators by sharing a link or sending an invitation via email. You can also click the Share button on the top right of the screen.

Another way to manage your document after converting it with OCR is to export it to another format.

The OCR document can be exported as a different format.

The OCR document may be exported as an editable text document, such as a Word Document or a Plain Text document, by going to File > Download As and selecting the format you want.

Now Get Working!

Google Drive provides a quick and easy way to convert image and PDF files into editable text for free using its built-in OCR featue.

These converted files can be easily shared or exported to different file formats for use at any time, and they're far more useful than your original scanned documents since you can now search through and copy text from everything you've scanned.
Editorial Note: This post was originally published in 2014. It has been comprehensively revised by our staff to make it current, accurate, and up to date-with special assistance from Laura Spencer.
If you have any trouble OCRing your documents in Google Drive, have any other OCR tools you love, or anything else you'd like to share about going paperless, let us know in the comments!

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Google Drive makes it painless to go paperless. Its collaborative documents, spreadsheets, and presentations already help curtail paper usage, but its OCR feature helps curb the paper mess even more. OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is the most important tech to help you go paperless.

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How To Use OS X El Capitan's Split Screen Mode

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Windows users may have been able to lock two windows into a split screen mode for years, but that feature has now made it to the Mac with OS X El Capitan. The operating system update introduces support for this screen-tidying feature for up to two windows per display at a time. You can browse recipes online in Safari with a to-do list open in Notes to make a grocery list, or you can have Steam and Twitter open side by side to get tips for what to buy in the latest sale. Here's how to divide your screen equally (or unequally) between two windows.

How To Use OS X El Capitan's New Split Screen Mode

1. Click and hold the green button in the upper left corner of an app that shows two triangles pointing in opposite directions. Do not release the button. If the green dot reveals a + sign, that app does not support slit screen view.

2. While holding down on the button, drag the window to the half of the screen you want to place it in. That half of the screen will be tinted blue.

3. Click on the window you want to fill the rest of your screen.
4. To resize the windows, click and drag the black bar between the two windows to the left or right. 5. To break a window out of split screen view, move your cursor to the top of the window and click on the green dot again.

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TIP: Use four fingers and slide up on your trackpad to see or add (with the plus in the far right) multiple desktops.

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TIP: Press shift, command, and 3 to take a screen shot of your how screen.

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easel.ly | create and share visual ideas online

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easel.ly | create and share visual ideas using infographics

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SafeShare - The safest way to share YouTube and Vimeo videos

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SafeShare reduces advertisements and other unwanted distractions from Vimeo and YouTube videos, so they can be viewed safely. Perfect for Schools!

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TIP: Press the fn button and F11 to get to your desktop quickly.

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OS X El Capitan: Create custom icons for files or folders

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TinyURL.com - make your own link to any website!!

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TinyURL.com - make your own link to any website!!

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How to Use Pinned Tabs in Safari for OS X El Capitan

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The latest versions of Safari Mac OS X include a pinned tab feature, which allow you to maintain a particular web sites browser tab consistently across Safari relaunching and rebooting of the Mac. Pinned Tabs kind of work like bookmarks in this sense, except that rather than having to show a bookmarks bar, you can simply visit the pinned site through the pinned tab which appears in the same tab toolbar you'd see in Safari when multiple tabs are open anyway.

The pinned tabs are subtle and not intrusive, making them a great way to keep quick access to sites you visit regularly in Safari on the Mac.

There are two ways to pin a browser tab in Safari, we'll demonstrate this feature with your favorite website, the always amazing http://osxdaily.com. You will need a modern release of Mac OS of OS X El 10.11 and later to have this feature available.

Pin a Tab with a Drag in Safari for Mac

Users can quickly pin a tab in Safari with a simple drag and drop trick:

1. Open a Safari window and open at least one new tab (Command+T will create a new tab), use the URL http://osxdaily.com for testing purposes if you'd like

2. Click and hold the tab you'd like to pin and drag it all the way to the left of the tab bar, release to create pin the tab

The pinned site is placed as a tab in the left side of the Safari tab bar.

Pin Tabs in Safari with a Right-Click

For those who like to use the right-click (or Control+click, two-finger click), you can also quickly pin any browser tab in Safari easily:

1. Have at least two tabs open in Safari, including the page you wish to pin as a tab

2. Right-click on the tab you wish to pin and choose "Pin Tab"

The pinned tab will appear on the left side of the tab bar.

If the website being pinned has a custom pin tab icon, it will display here, otherwise it will take the first letter of the website name and use that as the pinned tab icon.

Removing Pinned Tabs in Safari for Mac OS X

You can quickly remove pinned tabs from Safari by using one of the following tricks:

Drag and drop the Pinned Tab from the left side of the tab bar away and to the right to change it back to a regular browsing tab

OR: Right-click the Pinned Tab and choose "Unpin Tab"

Pinned tabs are a great place to put websites you visit frequently, like the one you're on right now, a webmail client, your favorite news source, social networks, or whatever else you visit on a regular enough basis that pinning the web site it to your tab bar is a great place for quick access.

By the way, pinned tabs also exist in Chrome, and work much the same way, so even if you're not a Safari user, or if you're not on the latest versions of OS X, you can still gain this feature by using the Google Chrome browser.

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Use Multi-Touch gestures on your Mac - Apple Support

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With a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can tap, swipe, pinch, or spread one or more fingers to perform useful actions. For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Trackpad. You can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac.